This Collection Of Essays Explores The Role Of Gardens In Early Modern Academies And, Conversely, The Place Of What Might Be Called 'academic Culture' In Early Modern Gardens. While Studies Of Botanical Gardens Have Often Focused On Their Association With A Research Institution, The Intention Of This Book Is Deliberately Broader, Seeking To Explore The Interactions And Intersections Between The Built Environment Of The Early Modern Garden And The More Or Less Organised Social And Intellectual Life It Supported. As Such, The Book Contributes To The Intersection Of Several Fields Of Research: Garden History, Literary History, Architectural History And Socio-political History, And Considers The Garden As A Site Of Performance That Requires An Intermedial Approach-- Provided By Publisher. Introduction : Atque Inter Silvas Academi Quaerere Verum -- Early Modern Gardens And The Academic Ideal / Denis Ribouillault -- The Green World Of The Accademia Pontaniana : Conviviality, Horticulture, And Arcadia / George Brocklehurst -- Pomponio Leto And His Garden : New Evidence On Its Archaeological Context / Alessia Dessi? -- Horti Colotiani : The Gardens Of Angelo Colocci, The Casino Del Bufalo And The Birthday Of Rome / Giorgio Mangani -- The Unknown Pleasure Grounds Of The Cardinals Colonna At The Abbey Of Subiaco / Tiziana Checchi -- The Poetic Fortune Of The Nymphaeum Of Villa Giulia (with New Poems By Giovan Francesco Commendone) / Denis Ribouillault -- The Academic Plane Tree In Early Modern Gardens / Denis Ribouillault -- Academies And Gardens Of The Faubourg Saint-marcel In Paris (1550-1578) / Laurent Paya -- Festive Erudition : The Garden Of Laurentius Scholz Von Rosenau In Breslau (wroclaw) 1588-99 / Christiane Lauterbach -- Botany And Academy : The Gardens Of Cardinal Del Monte In Late Sixteenth-century Rome / Alessandro Spila -- Vitaliano Borromeo's Academy Of The Isola Bella / Sergio Monferrini -- Academicians And Their Gardens In Genoa In The First Half Of The 17th Century / Lauro Magnani -- A Place Both Real And Imagined : Play, Performance And Narrative In The Gardens Of The Arcadian Academy In Rome / Katrina Grant -- The Milanese Colony Of The Arcadian Academy / Maria Cristina Loi. Edited By Denis Ribouillault. Includes Index.